A shaman's surgical art? A neurosurgical and osteoarchaeological study of a therapeutic trepanation from the Yanghai cemetery in Turpan Basin, China

Archaeology · Blunt · Bronze Age · China · Craniotomy · Prehistory · Shamanism · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · History of Medical Practice · Medicine · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Surgery

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• Surviving punishment by body reduction in a hierarchical society

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• Red princess of the Silk Road - the first-and-only known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in antiquity from the Iron Age Western Regions (202BCE − 8CE)

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• Frozen tombs of Siberia

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• D reappraisal of trepanations at St. Cosme priory between the 12th and the 15th centuries, France

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• The discovery of Capparis spinosa L. (Capparidaceae) in the Yanghai Tombs (2800 years b.p.), NW China, and its medicinal implications

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• The Religious and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and Tibet

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• The Burial of a Noble Pazyryk Woman

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• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology

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• Trepanation in South‐Central Peru during the early late intermediate period (ca. AD 1000–1250)

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• Violence in the first millennium BCE Eurasian steppe

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• New cases of trepanations from the 5th to 3rd millennia BC in Southern Russia in the context of previous research

  Open Access•Julia Gresky, Elena Batieva et al.•American Journal of Physical…•2016

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• Trepanation among the Early Nomads of Gorny Altai

  Open Access•Tatiana Chikisheva, T A Chikisheva et al.•Archaeology Ethnology and…•2014

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• Craniotomy as a Prehistoric Medical Practice

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• First case of boring-and-cutting trepanation in ancient China

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• A scientific analysis of cranial trepanation from an Early Iron Age cemetery on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China

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• Serial craniectomies for intracranial infection 5.5 millennia ago

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• Trepanation during the late Neolithic Age from the Mapai cemetery in the Gan-Qing region, northwestern China-A bioarcheological and experimental study

  Open Access•Shiyu Yang, Yang Sun et al.•International Journal of…•2023

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